A team of BSF's 157th battalion had launched the operation on Friday from its camp in Sangam village, he said. On the way back, Suresh Kumar allegedly shot himself with his AK-47 rifle between Ghoda and Dotameta villages, around 200 meters ahead of the camp.

Celebrities, musicians and political leaders gathered in front of George Floyd's golden casket Thursday for a fiery memorial service for the man whose death at the hands of police sparked global protests, with a civil rights leader declaring it is time for black people to demand, "Get your knee off our necks!"

A Florida police officer pressed his knee into the neck of a handcuffed black man a week before the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a bystander's video released this week shows -- a release that has prompted a departmental investigation and the officer being placed on leave.

Demonstrations in cities across the US to condemn racism and police abuses remained large but turned notably more subdued on the eve of a Thursday memorial service for George Floyd that kicks off a series of events to mourn the man whose death empowered a national movement.

In Minneapolis, George Floyd’s brother, Terrence, made an emotional plea at the site where Floyd was pinned to the pavement by an officer who put his knee on the handcuffed black man’s neck until he stopped breathing. “Let’s switch it up, y’all. Let’s switch it up. Do this peacefully, please,” he said.

US President Donald Trump said he was recommending that governors deploy the National Guard in sufficient numbers to "dominate the streets." If governors fail to take action, Trump said, he will mobilize "thousands and thousands" of US soldiers and "quickly solve the problem for them."

After six straight days of unrest, America headed into a new work week Monday with neighborhoods in shambles, urban streets on lockdown and political leaders struggling to control the coast-to-coast outpouring of rage over police killings of black people.